I never knew I needed to go back and forgive all my old teachers their every foible so they could go to heaven, or something. *LOL*  The whole thing is getting absurd.

Harry is interviewed by Rita Skeeter 19 years after the death of Snape:

The Chosen One speaks in today's Daily Prophet:

Harry Potter:
"Yes, I forgave Snape for not appreciating my superiority as a hero. I'm not sure why he thought I was just like my father, though it's true I used to sit in class and imagine smashing his head like a black beetle, and a few times I tried the Unforgiveables on him and called him Coward. Oh, and that thing about stealing his book and doing a bloody Sectumsempra on Draco Malfoy.  Water under the bridge, since I have forgiven myself long ago, and Snape just needs to get over it, in the afterlife, or his redemption will be cancelled.

Snape always loathed me, but he should have been more understanding, knowing what I was suffering.  Despite his own personal problems, which were legion let me tell you, he should have been more like our dear late Professor Lupin.  More of a Mr. Chips, like a feely-wheely psychotherapist, who could cheer me up and tell me to eat my pudding.  Instead I had to turn to other students for that, which was a tragedy for me, the hero.  Snape's tragedy is nothing compared to mine. 

If Snape loved my mother, then he should have loved me, and I know I'm lovable because all my friends loved me instantly, and I also gave Neville Longbottom a chocolate frog once.  So why didn't Snape see that chocolatey side of me? It's one of the mysteries of my life.  Why all the extra homework?  Why the bad grades?  Why did he make me scrub desks and write note cards, when we could have had a heart-to-heart talk over a dish of ice cream?  Then he would have understood my whole saving-people thingy, and begun to love me, the way Dumbledore did before he decided I needed to die.  But I forgive Dumbledore, too, since I've always liked twinkly blue eyes.  In fact, Dumbledore was pre-forgiven since he was a Gryffindor, like Sirius, and unlike Snape.  

I have long since forgiven Snape for not asking the hat to put him Gryffindor, which would have been much smarter of him.  But I have thanked the Hat, and also God, for being responsible that my name is Potter instead of Snape.

Rita: I understand that Professor Snape loved your dear Mother?

Harry: Yes, but I forgive him for that. He shouldn't have presumed to love her.  What was he thinking?  

To be honest, as all heroes must be,  I never had a clue about Snape's great love until five minutes after he died, so I forgive myself for that.  I also forgive my mother for talking to Snape at all, and for being his friend.  She was young and naive, obviously, and dumped Snape as soon as my father turned out to be so good.  That redemptive pattern of my father James makes him one of the true heroes of the story, and I forgive Snape now for loathing my father and Sirius.

My mother Lily was a saint, but she never wanted to marry Snape, since he was a greasy git, and he wasn't in Gryffindor anyway. My father was so much better at Quidditch.  *Sigh*  Snape should have accepted that my father, like me, was the superior bully hero.  At least that should have been clear after my father depantsed him down by the lake.  I am sure James always wanted the best for Snape, since he was a hero too, like myself, which is why I look like him, and not like Snape.  

I'm sure James and all his friends wanted Snape to find a nice ugly Slytherin girl to love, so his life would have had more meaning.  They were very caring people, those Marauders.

I named my son after Severus as part of his redemptive pattern, which all comes from me, the one and only hero of the story.  I have ensured that his reincarnation stayed on task, and his eternal soul gets to go the celestial cafe once a week for a dose of instant karma.  Yes, Snape was lucky to have me, and even now, I know that his brave spirit is thanking me in heaven.  

Rita: And there you have it.  The hero story as Joseph Campbell always intended it.  One hero, with one face, and the one with the ugly face needs to get out of the way.